JoeSchmoe

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McDermitt. Pack up your desk. Here's your pink slip. Good luck in the future.

How about taking our Cam Newton II of a QB and actually letting him play his game. Sure he might end up hurt, but you're not going to win with him any other way.

I'm a flip flopper too. My latest flop has me thinking that with Kane putting more butts in seats, we'll get louder, more excited crowds. Better crowds means a better, more motivated team which for a long time has sucked at home.

Lets take a vote using the ✅ or the ❌ to my post... Who SKIPPED reading this because it was too long. ✅ SKIPPED ❌ DIDN'T SKIP

Mitch Marner got sent back when he was way further along his development track than Benson or Savoie. That turned out to be a good move.

Faceoffs are important, and if there was such thing as a guy that could win you 80% faceoffs, you would put him out there in some situations, even if he sucked. However, statistically the VERY best one or two guys in the league will win you 1 more faceoff out of 10 than an average guy. A REALLY GOOD faceoff guy will win you 1 more out of 20. If you and I were both NHL GM's, I feel that I would like you as a trading partner.

Josh "Cam Newton" Allen is only effective when he's running a lot. Today he is not running a lot.

Lists are stupid. Nothing but a bunch of click bait. In the journalism profession, they call them listicles and they are by all means the laziest of lazy journalism. Reasons: 1. People are for some reason drawn to these lists... Likely to see if their favourite jaunt is on there. Or music lists where their favourite song is on there. 2. It's a subjective... Research what a bunch of other people say and you don't even need to go further. A matter of taste. Similar to music lists. 3. Lists aren't really need alot of good grammar because it's not for the high fallutin readers. 4. In my google feed, I block any websites that are usually just a bunch of listicle garbage. Sick of reading about the best 10 days trips from Southern Ontario. Anyhow, that's how I feel about listicles... Don't even bother.

Any thought on a Tokarski / UPL swap?

Maybe... How did Lehner compare?

At the end of the 2nd, the stats experts say an average NHL goalie would have only let in 1.72 goals. Average NHL goalies save shots they're not supposed to.

The eggheads are saying the expected goals are: 1.92 Buff 1.7 Phi Classic UPL game.

The exchange rate for Canadians right now is abysmal. This will affect me going to the games for sure. Picking a random spot in the 100s, tickets would be $250CN straight from Ticketmaster. I feel like these seats might have only been $150CN tops a year or two ago when exchange was better and ticket prices were lower. With my wallet stretched as far as it thanks to inflation, I'm going to be a 300s guy if I'm going to any games this year. Looking at the ticket map, it looks like the 300s are selling well, likely because that's all people can afford.

My favourite part of Cozens game is when he picks up the puck in the neutral zone and he drives the offensive zone at full power. I haven't seen too much of that this year.

Has Cozens looked off so far? Tuch seems to get the attention but could Cozens be hurt too?

Staying in the sub festive spirit, how do you like your pain?

Any self respecting club sandwich has real cooked turkey (edit: or chicken) and not the lunch meat type. 🤤

If it's lunch meat based no toast. If it's steak, meatball, grilled chicken, etc, toast.

This is true. The defense did a great job keeping pucks out of the net while UPL was doing his usual post-rebound chicken dance.

Yeah, he goes down, and can't get back up or get back into position. I've never noticed a goalie that poor at it.

I'm a UPL critic with the best of them, but he's done his job tonight!

Most goals you can't blame on the goalie. If they save all the ones they're supposed to get, you might have an .800 goalie. A real NHL goalie makes proportionally more saves on all the goals you can't be blamed for. UPL saves comparably less of the goals he can't be blamed for, and let's a few in he's supposed to get too.

What's the Mittelstadt kid going to cost?!?! 😛